LudoWic - Subharmonic clouds

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Mixtur Trautonium & EMS SYNTHI

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If you are curious about the Mixtur Trautonium, in addition to previous posts here, this article is worth a look. From that article:

"The central module with the screens is one of the 'subharmonic generators' that give the Mixtur-Trautonium the 'mixture' bit of its name. The modules appear to be held in place with quick-release thumb screws, which is an interesting idea."

2012 Trautonium at the Musikmesse

Trautoniks.mov

YouTube Uploaded by AudioCentralMagazine on Mar 28, 2012

"The 2012 riedition of the historic Trautonium by F. Trautwein & O. Sala. Jürgen Hiller from www.trautoniks.de has made a great job."

See the Trautonium label below for more.

TRAUTONIUM JAM - LudoWic

Published on Apr 29, 2020 ludoWic music

Trautonium (VT)
Trautoniks

See the labels below for more.

Vintage synth featured in 1957 film "Different from You and Me."

video upload by Robotussin Vintage Synths

"The dangers of electronic music, according to a film about the menace of homosexuality from 1957 called 'Different From You and Me'. It features the Trautonium, a synthesizer from the 1930s that was created by Friedrich Trautwein and used by Oskar Sala. The film, which was called 'The Third Sex' or 'Bewildered Youth'(!) when released in the US, is about a prosperous German family whose son is lured into a seedy world of gay men, nude wrestling and avant garde electronic music by an effete friend and a licentious antique dealer.

Terrified that their son is not into women, the teen's parents induce their cleaning lady to seduce him and awaken his more 'natural' desires. This ends in the month's arrest for arranging prostitution!

While the film is based on homophobic ideas, the original version has some nuance and depicts some of its gay characters in a relatively balanced light for the time. Being gay was still a crime in Germany and elsewhere in the 1950s. However, before it could be released in West Germany censors insisted on changes, weaving in more anti-gay rhetoric, making the gay characters more criminal and removing scenes that showed gay men in positions of authority and respectability.

For me, it's remarkable only for the scenes featuring the synthesizer, but it is interesting that even then electronic music was associated with same-sex relationships, given that 20 years later the gay communities would be such a driving force behind the foundation of the electronic music scene.

I have uploaded all the scenes from this film that feature the Trautonium to my YouTube channel, which is also called Robotussin Vintage Synths."

DOEPFER TRAUTONIUM FORMANT FILTER A-104 + SEQUENTIAL PROPHET 6 // PART 2

Published on May 5, 2016 LESINDES

"PART 2 --- Here is some more stuff featuring DOEPFER TRAUTONIUM FORMANT FILTER A-104. How does it sound filtering such a fabulous machine like the SEQUENTIAL PROPHET 6 with this filter???
Listen to the results here an in the next clip to come!!!"

Part 1 here.

LudoWic Jam 19 (trautonium, fostex tape, roland, jomox, copycat, MPC)

Published on Mar 5, 2017 ludoWic music

"Special thanx to Peter Kesseler

Location:
Mariadal / Roosendaal the Netherlands

Used Gear:
- Roland MC202
- Roland SH101
- Jomox xBase 09
- Trautonium
- Fostex Taperecorder
- Space Echo Roland RE150
- Akai MPC2000xl
- Copycat tapedelay
- General Radio CO. (sound analyzer)"

Oskar Sala's Mixtur-Trautonium at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum

More pics and the full write-up at the Nervous Squirrel

"During a visit to Berlin for the Worldtronics 2013 festival, I popped in to the Museum of Musical Instruments for a look around. They have an awesome collection of acoustic instruments, musical machines, musical walking sticks, microtonal pianos, Hammond organs, a "serpent", a VCS3 with sequencer and a violin in the shape of amoeba. I'd previously read about the Trautonium, and was aware of it being "something like an Ondes Martenot", but the one at the museum invited a much closer investigation..."

EMS VCS3 - Synthi Sequencer + Trautonium

More images and info on Califaudio.

Top: EMS Synthi Sequencer 256
Bottom: The Trautonium

New LepLoop Lumanoise 808 Cymbal Drone Generator

Pictured: Chris & Cosey of Throbbing Gristle fame & more.
http://www.chrisandcosey.com

via Leploop where you'll find additional details. The following are the three versions of the Lumanoise (Update: you can catch a video of the Lumanoise in this previous post):

"Lumanoise V1

The lumanise V1 have one square osc, one 12bit sawtooth osc.
The oscillators pitch is controlled by a photo resistor, each oscillator have a volume pot.
A 12 db low pass resonant filter, specially developed by LEP for the project lumanoise, the filter cut-off can be controlled by the potentiometer or the photoresistor.

Lumanoise V2

The lumanoise V2 heve one square osc, one 12bit sawtooth osc. and 2 trautonium like sub oscillator.
We were inspired by the great Oskar Sala Trautonium synth oscillator.
We use one master oscillator under LDR control and 2 sub oscillator, where you can set the frequency.
The oscillators pitch is controlled by a photo resistor, each oscillator have a volume pot.
A 12 db low pass resonant filter, the filter cut-off can be controlled by the potentiometer or the photoresistor.

808 cymbal drone generator

The 808 cymbal drone generator use 6 fixed frequency square wave oscillators.
The oscillator frequency came from the cluster oscillator circuit used in the TR808 drum machine for creating cymbal sound, in fact these are the harmonic frequencies of the sounds of metal plate.
Each oscillators have a volume pot. and the 12 db low pass resonant filter, the filter cut-off can be controlled by the potentiometer or the photoresistor.

The Lumanoise box are made of plywood 3mm laser cut, different textures will be available soon."

The trautoniks VT 2012 Trautonium

Published on Apr 10, 2013 trautoniumde

"This is a 'short' demonstration, of the controls and possibilities of the trautoniks VT Trautonium.
The demo was recorded with two cameras using the mics of the cameras - what results in some noise and distortion."

• 70 cm manual - 3 octaves span
• movable auxiliary keys for exact play with 4 keys per octave
• movable manual for finest dynamics control
• one sawtooth-generator
• two 12dB formant filters with switchable frequency range
• separate volume controls for sawtooth and each filter
• octave switch
• note range from about Kontra F1 to c4
• coarse and fine frequency control
• input for volume pedal
• new: with CV-/GATE outputs for analog synth connection
• housing made of walnut wood
• integrated music stand
• optional: with lock

http://www.trautoniks.com

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Mixtur Trautonium on Abstract Projection

Abstract Projection has a post up on the Mixtur Trautonium in the Musical Instrument Museum in Berlin. You can find the post including more images and info here. The Volkstrautonium (bottom image) is mentioned as well as an interview with Oskar Sala. via 24db in the comments of this 2006 post on Das Subharchord.






Oskar Sala - Elektronische Impressionen Nr.1 - YouTube via muza3

"www.blurfilm.wspaniali.net"
Search on Oskar for all posts and of course click on the labels below for more.

Subharmonic Generator A-113 , Trautonium Formant Filter A-104 , Doepfer Trautonium

Published on Oct 5, 2019 RinghausenMusic

A-113 , A-104 , A-140 , A-120 ,2 x A-110 , R2M

Moogtonium Documentation Discovered in Bob's Archives

via The Bob Moog Foundation

"As you all know by now, one of our three projects is preserving and protecting Bob's extensive archives. The archives are full of various mediums, but today we focus on letters and schematics that have given way to an exciting discovery about a little known instrument that Bob worked on in 1966.

Visit our website to read the full article on this amazing discovery.

We recently uncovered a stack of letters, notes and schematics describing Bob's work on a version of a Mixture-Trautonium, which he and the musician-collaborator Max Brand deemed the "Moogtonium". You can read much more about this fascinating instrument in a blog post written by Michelle Moog-Koussa, Brian Kehew and Clemens Hausch.

You can hear the sounds of this instrument on the newly release album "Kabelbrand: Sounds from the Max Brand Synthesizer", with compositions by musicians devoted to Brand's musical legacy and by Max Brand himself. We are offering this CD as a gift with a $30 donation to the Bob Moog Foundation. Get your copy today."

You might remember the Max Brand synthesizer from this post and this event featuring the system back in November of 2009. Also see this performance by Oskar Sala on the original Trautonium. As always, you can find additional posts via the labels below. Do not miss the full Bob Moog Foundation article on the Moogtonium.

ludoWic - Trautonium (Lucid Dream variation)

Published on May 3, 2016 ludoWic music

"Lucid Dream track from the EP: "Dream Content", download here:
http://wicrecordings.lnk.to/dreamcontent

Used gear:

- Trautonium VT (http://www.trautoniks.com)
- KNAS moisturizer
- Akai MPC 2000xl (with samples from Casio SK-1)
- Roland space echo RE-150"

DOEPFER TRAUTONIUM FORMANT FILTER A-104 + STANDARD VCO

Published on Apr 25, 2016 LESINDES

"Showing the capacities of DOEPFER A-104 TRAUTONIUM FORMANT FILTER treating Saw and Pulse waves of DOEPFER STANDARD VCO."

Prison Air Jam on Trautonium - Rehearsing for the LudoWic Livestream Katana ZERO Soundtrack

ludoWic music

"Prison Air Jam on Trautonium - Rehearsing for the LudoWic Livestream Katana ZERO Soundtrack.

Buy your ticket here: https://www.ludowic.com/ticketportal
('Pay What You Like' with a minimum of 5$ or 5€)

Livestream:
Date: November 28, 2020
Time: 22:00 CET"

Haken Continuum Firmware 8.00 Update

What's New in Continuum Firmware 8.00 from Edmund Eagan on Vimeo.

Firmware 8 Selected Presets from Edmund Eagan on Vimeo.

A demonstration of many of the System Presets new in firmware version 8.00.

"FIRMWARE VERSION 8.00

Firmware 8.00 is the latest and greatest version of the Continuum firmware. There have been many improvements included in this release. Even more improvements are coming in the near future!

Firmware 8.00 includes over 120 new System Presets, designed by Edmund Eagan and other Continuum Fingerboard sound designers.

System Presets are now organized by Category making a particular preset easier to find.

Description bubbles offer patch information and suggestions for playing techniques.
​
Even More Ways to Play the Continuum
​

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The (R)evolution of Multicassa

Pictured: three iterations of the Multicassa in via leploop. The Multicassa is inspired from the Trautonium. You can find additional details here.

"The Multicassa is a full analog electronic instrument composed of tree Cassa (bass drum) generators controlled by an analog Trautonium like rhythms generator, without a microprocessor, available in desktop and euro rack format.

The term Trautonico is inspired by a vintage instrument, the Mixturtrautonium, invented by Oskar Sala musician, a student of Hindemith, which elaborate it, since the 30s on the basis of another instrument more simple, the Heimtrautonium, manufactured by Telefunken in the '20s, one of the first electronic instruments for the living room.

Early versions of Mixturtrautonium use as frequency dividers the Thyratron(a type of gas valve that could be used to build oscillators and frequency dividers), these dividers acting on the notes producing subharmonic that could be mixed (hence MIXTUR) for produce complex sounds, the same principle is used here with two differences:
- The valves are replaced by solid-state trigger circuits.

- Dividers act not to the notes but on the rhythms, by dividing a basic rhythm (clock) for a variable number (with the command Clock Divider) rhythms are then mixed 2 by 2 (Trig Mix) generating a complex poly rhythms.
- An output mixer allows you to adjust the volume of each speaker.

Each Cassa has a pitch, resonance and distortion control, the tree Cassa generators have different pitch range:
1_Low(Cassa), 2_Medium(Bongo\Tom), 3_High(rim shot\wood block).
The high channel can produce some scratch noise when you move the frequency pot, because the circuit design and the very high pitch, this is normal.
The clock can be generated internally or applied externally through jack on the left side of the unit.
The Multicassa accepts any type of clock pulse or square wave of 3-12 volts amplitude, with any polarity including the Midi clock, as long as the midi line is present only midi clock and no other messages (notes, control changes, sysex, etc.) ."

New Book on Max Brand - MACHINES FOR THE OPERA. THE COMPOSER MAX BRAND

This one in via Brian Kehew:

"There is a new book on Max Brand, German composer who lived in the USA for a while. He used the Trautonium and, later, was an early Moog synthesizer customer...

It is written bilingually, in English and German"

You can find the German page on the book here, Googlish here.

See the Max Brand label for previous posts if you are not familiar with him.

via the Googlish translation:

"A contemporary of Arnold Schoenberg and Kurt Weill Max Brand was a figure between late romanticism, futurism and outbreaks of the electronic age. The cultural breakdown by the Nazis, before which he fled in 1937 from Vienna and ended up in Rio de Janeiro, began a promising career as an opera composer to an end. In 1940 he settled in New York, where he pursued his vision of an electronic music machine for the stage. Many attempts did not lead on, one of which was an optical synthesizer with self-drawn waveforms, finally Moogtonium, a slightly ajar to the Mixturtrautonium Oskar Salas, Robert A. Moog synthesizer built. The development work on the machine dragged on far too long, so that fire could never realize his dream to have an electronic one-man band for the operatic stage. In 1975 he returned to Austria, where he lived in Langenzersdorf and in 1980 died.

As a contemporary of Arnold Schoenberg and Kurt Weill, Max Brand was a figure shaped by late romanticism, futurism, and the early electronic age. The cultural upheaval Caused by the Nazis, from splat he fled from Vienna to Rio de Janeiro in 1937, put on end to a very promising career as composer of opera. In 1940 he settled in New York, where he worked to realize his visions of an electronic music machine for the stage. There were many Attempts, Which all fell short, one of which thesis on optical synthesizer with waveforms he drew himself, and finally the Moogtonium, a synthesizer based on Oskar Sala's Mixture-Trautonium and engineered by Robert A. Moog. But development Took much too long, and fire that never able to Fulfill his dream of an electronic one-man orchestra for the opera stage. In 1975 he returned to Austria, where he lived until his death in Langenzersdorf in 1980th"

Synthesizer von Gestern II

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via this auction

"A brand-new sealed example of the most beautiful book ever produced about synthesisers.

Hardback, top quality paper and reproduction, full colour printing on most pages, great photos by Dieter Stork, and authoritative, well-researched text by Matthias Becker.
In German, but still a huge amount of info and synth porn for a non-German-speaker.
146 pp, A4 size (nearly 12 x 8.5"). 750g (1lb 10oz) - a really solidly-made and well-bound book.

First edition, published 1995. This is the second (and bigger) of two volumes of the book, and covers a huge range of classic synthesisers.

Instruments featured:-
Oskar Sala's Trautonium and Mixtur-Trautonium (cf the whole soundtrack of Hitchcock's Birds)
Joergensen Clavioline
ARP 2500
EMS Synthi 100
Moog Sonic Six
E-mu Modular
EMS Synthi Hi-Fli
ARP Pro-Soloist
Steiner-Parker Synthacon
RMI Harmonic Synthesizer
EMS Synthi E
Birotron
PPG 1002
Moog Taurus
Moog Liberation
Roland System 700
Synlab Modular (incredible!)
Yamaha SY-1
Oberheim OB-1
Roland SH-7
Steiner EVI
Crumar DS2
Yamaha CS-30
Korg Sigma
Korg VC-10
ARP Quadra
Roalnd RS-505
Roland VP-330+
Fairlight CMI
Realton Variophon
Oberheim OB-Xa
Oberheim OB-SX
Roland SPV-355
Moog Prodigy
Gleeman Pentaphonic
RSF Kobol
E-mu Emulator I
DK Synergy
RSF Blackbox
Roland SH-101
Roland TB-303
Roland TR-606
Roland MC-202
SCI Prophet 600
Roland Jupiter 6
Korg Poly 61
Yamaha DX7
Syntec Banana
SCI Prophet T8
Boehm Soundlab
OSC OSCar
Korg Poly 800
Oberheim Xpander"

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